Anderson County, Texas - History - The Fort Houston Settlement

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Submitted by Scott Fitzgerald - scottfitzgerald@tyler.net
East Texas Genealogical Society, President
20 April 2005

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Originally published in The Tracings, Volume 1, No. 1, Winter 1982 by the
Anderson County Genealogical Society, copyright assigned to the East Texas
Genealogical Society.

The Fort Houston Settlement

by Edna McDonald Wylie


This book, which is presently in the Texana Collection of the Palestine
Carnegie Library was written as a theses by Mrs. Wylie in 1958. It is full
of information concerning people and places of that time period, with
reference given in each instance. It is a "must" if a person is researching
the early settlement of this region.

The Courthouse Records show the following names were assigned lots in the
town of Houston in 1836:

D. M. Crist
John McLinn
Oliver Lund (Lunn)
Shadrack H. Moore
William Perry
A. E. McClure
Silas H. Parker
W. Lewis
James Wilson
Richard Sparks
G. E. Dwight
Alexander Joost
H. A. Delespine
E. H. Person
W. Wilson
Benj. Parker
B. W. Douthit
James E. Box
Ed (or Eli Faukenbury, son-in-law, Abram or Adrian Faulkenburg)
Randolph W. Davis
G. Glen

These men with 8 or 10 others probably constituted the census of the Fort at
that time. In 1837, Houston County was established and the Fort Houston
Settlement and town of Houston were place in the Houston County
jurisdiction. However, the town never materialized.

Appendix F in her book lists other names present in the Fort on the 25th of
August, 1838, in a letter from the citizens of Fort Houston to the President
of the Republic of Texas, Sam Houston. Appendix C gives a map of the
proposed town of Houston.

Mrs. Wylie, a retired schoolteacher, presently resides at 906 Wright Drive,
Palestine, Texas.